Dr. Meghan Corella

Biography

Meghan Corella is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the dynamics of power that are reinforced and reconfigured in linguistic interactions, particularly emphasizing young children from linguistically, racially, and culturally minoritized groups. She specializes in discourse analysis, sociocultural linguistics, and classroom ethnography. Corella's research interests encompass academic language literacies, multimodality and multiliteracies, second/foreign language assessment, and teaching and learning methodologies. Her work also delves into language ideologies and sociocultural reconceptualizations of language competence, particularly in the context of early childhood language and literacy learning. She employs qualitative research methods, notably ethnographic approaches combined with discourse analysis, to explore these themes.

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